Stress Management

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The Complete Guide to Wellness is the culmination of over 20 years of applied research in over 100 companies. The materials in this book were first tested in hospital settings under physician supervision and were later implemented in companies with leading behavioral psychologists and organizational change experts.

The training modules contained in this book have been used successfully by hundreds of thousands of employees in companies such as AT&T, Southwestern Bell, and Ford Motor Company. The results from these interventions have been published in numerous journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association. This resource incorporates recent findings from behavioral medicine, cultural medicine, organizational behavior, and medical research.

The Complete Guide to Wellness includes all the reproducible materials you need to run either a self-study or group training program on any of the topics covered. The Lifestyles Possibilities Assessment is a full-screen assessment that correlates to the workshop, so you know which topic is the most important to start with.

Section I:

• Assessment
• Lifestyle Possibilities: Orientation

600 reproducible pages/ 3-ring binder/ $199.95

Emotional Intelligence explains why, despite equal intellectual capacity, training, or experience, some people excel while others of the same caliber lag behind. Certain competencies are found repeatedly in high performers at all levels, from customer service representatives to CEOs. As trainers we must find ways to build these talents labeled EQ (emotional intelligence quotient).

The 50 reproducible activities in this resource book focus on developing the following set of talents: self-awareness and control, empathy, social expertness, personal influence, and mastery of vision.

Selected Contents

• Emotional Intelligence — What Is It?
• A Coach’s / Trainer’s Guide to Helping Leaders Improve EQ
• How to Use This Guide
• Guide to the 50 EQ Activities
• Suggested Training Formats
• Action / Reaction Visions
• Apply to People Too
• Advice from the Pros
• Steps for Growth
• More Reflections

50 Activities for Developing Emotional Intelligence Code: HR50 $149.95

Not enough time . . . No budget . . . Too many people to train.

No more excuses! Use these Skill-Building Booklets to improve your employee’s performance on 32 important competencies. Simple but complete. Each Booklet provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in each competency. The skills learned by the individual can be actualized through use of a unique application template that is included with each Booklet.

Train your employees for $5 or less per person.

Stress Management Skill-Building Booklets come in packs of 10 for $49.95

Not enough time . . . No budget . . . Too many people to train.

No more excuses! Use these Skill-Building Booklets to improve your employee’s performance on 32 important competencies. Simple but complete. Each Booklet provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in each competency. The skills learned by the individual can be actualized through use of a unique application template that is included with each Booklet.

Train your employees for $5 or less per person.

Emotional Intelligent Skill-Building Booklets come in packs of 10 for $49.95

Millions of Americans are overworked, over-scheduled and just plain stressed out. We're putting in longer hours on the job now than we did in the 1950s, despite promises of a coming age of leisure before the year 2000. In fact, we're working more than medieval peasants did, and more than the citizens of any other industrial country. On average, we work nearly nine full weeks (350 hours) LONGER per year than our peers in Western Europe do. Working Americans average a little over two weeks of vacation per year, while Europeans average five to six weeks.

OVERWORK HURTS ALL OF US IN DIFFERENT WAYS

Overwork threatens our health. It leads to fatigue, accidents and injuries. It reduces time for exercise and encourages consumption of calorie-laden fast foods. Job stress and burnout costs our economy more than $200 billion a year. Overwork threatens our marriages, families and relationships as we find less time for each other, less time to care for our children and elders, less time to just hang out. It weakens our communities. We have less time to know our neighbors, supervise our young people, and volunteer. It reduces employment as fewer people are hired and then required to work longer hours, or are hired for poor part-time jobs without benefits. It leaves us little time for ourselves, for self-development, or for spiritual growth.

TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY IS NOT ANTI-WORK

Useful and creative work is essential to happiness. But American life has gotten way out of balance. Producing and consuming more have become the single-minded obsession of the American economy, while other values -- strong families and communities, good health, active citizenship and social justice, time for nature and the soul -- are increasingly neglected.

Take Back Your Time Day is a project of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University. It is also an initiative of The Simplicity Forum.

Thank God It's Monday newsletter supports this initiative and finds it complementary to its own initiative of Four Weeks Vacation For All. Read below.

In his book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and It’s All Small Stuff”, author Richard Carlson, PH.D. suggests an exercise that he describes as the most helpful for self-improvement. I find it helpful for stress management as well. He recommends that you, "Imagine that Everyone Is Enlightened Except You." As the title suggests, the idea is to imagine that everyone you know and everyone you meet is perfectly enlightened. That is, everyone except you!

The people you meet are all here to teach you something. Perhaps the obnoxious driver or disrespectful teenager is here to teach you about patience, the punk rocker might be here to teach you to be less judgmental.

Your job is to try to determine what the people in your life are trying to teach you. You'll find that if you do this, you will be far less annoyed, bothered, and frustrated by the actions and imperfections of other people. Often, once you discover what someone is trying to teach you, it's easier to let go of your frustration. All you're doing is changing your perception from "Why are they doing this to me?" to "What are they trying to teach me?" Take a look around today at all the enlightened people."

The sad fact is that in many organizations in the US, managers and executives get four weeks, while union members, secretaries, and other front-line staff get only two! No wonder relations between management and workers are often filled with conflict and distrust. I wish all American organizations do the right thing for their employees: give everybody a four week vacation. Workers in most European, Canadian, and Australian organizations enjoy that.

Here is how this initiative can wipe out unemployment: Since two extra weeks of vacation means a loss of about 4% of work-time, most organizations will be forced to make up for this by hiring more staff, about 4% more. Since unemployment now is about 9%, this can reduce unemployment to about 5%. With more people working and spending, the recovery of our economy will be accelerated, creating more demands and more jobs, reducing unemployment even more, to reach about 2%, which is considered, statistically, as full employment.

So, send this article to your Human Resources people.

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Activities cover

• Understanding stress
• Types of stress
• Stress and performance
• Sources of stress
• Managing stress

Training Objectives

• Identify the various forms of stress
• Decide which types of people may be susceptible to stress
• Examine the different sources of stress and the impact on people and their performance
• Examine the kinds of coping strategies that individuals and groups use and how these strategies affect performance

50 Activities for Managing Stress/ $149.95

You live in a world of family, friends, education, activities and work. There may be moments in a busy day when you feel stressed and it is difficult for you to think clearly. Learn the benefits of taking a two-minute mental break every couple of hours. Learn simple techniques that you can do right at your desk. The result will bring you a sense of calmness and clarity. Remember, stress management is essential so you can cope with a variety of stressors. Duration 14:45 Minutes This is part of Volume 4 of the Employee Awareness Series.

Purchase this program for $110.00. Please choose this title from the drop screen as you place the order.

To learn more about this series please see: http://www.videos4training.com/employee-training.html 

Understanding the nature of stress at a detailed level is the basis upon which we can start to manage it effectively. The Personal Stress and Well-being Assessment provides a simple but thorough process by which we can better understand our own stress handling skills.

This self-scoring personal stress tool has been designed to provide a useful template for an individual to rate themselves in a number of competency areas that are considered to be relevant to the existence of stress and personal well-being.

The Facilitator's Guide includes steps for administration, interpretation, and coaching suggestions.

The Package comes with One Facilitator's Guide plus one Assessment Profile $99.95

A Set of 5 Additional Personal Stress Profiles for 5 users $49.75

Program highlights:

• Unexpected symptoms of chronic stress.
• Good stress vs. bad stress.
• Three techniques to manage stress (avoidance, short-circuiting, mitigation) with examples of when to use each.

Stress. Most people feel this at some point during the day--either on the road, or on the job. In small amounts, stress can help you focus your attention and improve your performance. But too much stress, too often, can undermine your performance and damage your health.

Stress also undermines your company's bottom line, by increasing absenteeism and decreasing productivity. But you can do something about it. In this new Stanford video program, you will learn from experts about the causes of stress and proven ways to lessen its negative impacts.

Use this video and accompanying guidebook to optimize your company's overall stress levels--and gain valuable insights to enhance your own personal well-being.

Video: 22 minutes (2001)/ Includes 21-page guidebook./ Produced in association with Stanford University Media Solutions.

Purchase DVD for 95.00

Additional Study Guides, Pack of 5 $34.75